re: DAT Off-season Thread: YWCHA Edition

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Bob Nightengale @BNightengale The dormant trade market is finally waking up. The Houston #Astros and Arizona #Dbacks have engaged in trade talks about Dbacks outfielder Daulton Varsho. The asking price remains steep. 2:29 PM · Dec 12, 2022

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With the rumors it would take one of Javier, Garcia, Urquidy, or Brown and plus Leon.

No thank you

I’m pretty underwhelmed with what Oakland received in the Murphy deal. Feel like we could’ve matched that

I’d rather have been the third team like the Brewers and gotten Contreras tbh

2023 was never winnable

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Vasquez to the twins.

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Looks like we’re just going to gamble that the pitching is equally dominant as last year and has no health problems. In addition to counting on one of the young guys to step in and do exactly what Peña did.

We needed three of four between 1B, LF, CF and C. (Or DH if you pencil in Yed in LF)

We’re going to get one of the four.

And we're still stuck with Maldy.

Vasquez was the guy that made all the sense in the world. We've already traded a prospect for him, he knows the pitching staff, he's well regarded defensively and he's one of the better hitting offensive catchers in the game.

But he made clear he had no interest in another split time arrangement with a clearly inferior player in Maldy. Why we continue to hamper ourselves with myth of Maldy I have no idea but hoorah for another .150 struggle season.

3 years $30 million

Yeah, that deal pretty much says it all about Dusty, Maldy, and Vazquez

It was never an option

Sad but true. And a competent GM would have offered another year or two at that value to assuage the year of playing aside Maldy.